Memories are a funny thing. You never know how important they are until they are gone...and when you get them back sometimes...just sometimes you may think you were better off without them. I'm not going to bother you with details of how my husband and I regained them but I can tell you a bit of what they contained.
Let me start with the fact we experienced each others memories as one. Both of us viewing all of them together. We saw our births which I found my father was actually present for and our growing up years. Ben's were filled with training it seems while mine...mine was one of horrors. It's one thing to know what happened to you but to experience it again...it's another thing entirely. Especially when you find the horrors you knew about were only followed by years of more and often times worse horrors.
However a funny thing happened, not only did my father save me from the hell hole I was in he helped me to overcome it. One by one I buried my past traumas away until I was bleeding out an felt all the poisons of my growing up years flush from my system and my father kissed my forehead and I finally had a peaceful sleep.
There was a memory of Rhia and I together in New Orleans, searching for some horses. It was after a fight that I learned of her geas and we did eventually make up and enjoyed the rest of the celebrations together. Another memory with her but this time introducing Wuyi to the mix. Rhia and I having parted ways to go about our missions separately, we fought the Cipactli's children. When the battle ended we celebrated on a terra incognita filled with alcohol and beautiful, strong men and women and that started our bond.
More memories of battles, with the full band this times, fighting ice giants. A memory of a palace in which Kahlia, Kelly, sneezed and it echoed, and the King of some lessor heaven shouted for his guardians to seize us for offending him. It seemed it was soon after Ben's inclusion cause I got the feeling Wu and Rhia were still weary of taking his leadership but when he suggested we split up, they agreed with a shug and charged the guardians as Ben's hand wrapped around my wrist and suddenly I didn't seem to care what the others were doing as Ben tugged me through twists and turns until we were in a quiet room with a koi pond and the soft play of music in the air. I turned and Ben's staring at me so oddly that I had to ask what was wrong before the memory swirled away into the fog.
As for Ben's memories I will leave those to him to discuss but suffice it to say I think even though I now know the hells I went through, in greater detail, I can more easily move past them. My husband, gods bless him, loves me with a fierceness matched only by myself, he accepts me with my horrid past and through his strength I am certain I can push past this.
One last thing...Morrigan threw a party that Horus showed up to with out relics and Hathor. Ben and I may retain our relics if he fulfills his arranged marriage with Hathor. It boiled my blood to see how she looked at my husband and to hear Horus dare to speak of duty and traditions but I kept my temper. I clung to my husband and let him speak his peace only occasionally adding my own input. The conversation was put on hold for the dinner where Dionysus informed us Artemis would hunt us as enemies of the Greeks and his son, Rupper was offered amnesty if he would leave us. As a last bit we found out it was Alicia, Ben's daughter, who snuck Prometheus' brother into the underworld and orchestrated our escape.
Bloody hell things will never be simple will they?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Of dying...and why Wuyi is so awesome.
A door bursts open and Cal come flapping out, more hurt than I have ever seen him. A wing is broken and he scrambles across the top of the building. Seeing my own death in him I lept down to force him safely into me. When I turn there are four armed human guards chasing him. I scared one away, and the other four opened fire. Their bullets slammed into me, nearly knocked me from the roof, but I'm a touch bitch that way and the spray of bullets did nothing. I then kicked a ball of fire at one, turning his armor molten slag and melting away his flesh. The other two alerted back up and I threw two more blazing balls of fire at them. I looked up at my brother and told him to stay put, I was going for my husband, then I ran into the building. People didn't seem to notice me as the building was panicked but then a Keeper stepped out and looked right at me. I skidded to a halt, turned on my heel and ran as fast I possibly could back to the roof, cursing in frustration.
The Keeper however did not follow and as I burst onto the roof another Keeper lands and advances on me...with Ben right behind him. I felt a wave of relief at having finally found my husband soon followed by anger that he left without warning...but we had a Keeper to deal with. Ben slashed out it with his sword only to watch in horror as it bounce right off the Keeper. The Keeper turned his attentions to Ben and I channeled my anger as my hands blazed in fury and I pressed them into it's armor and forced the fire to flow over it, turning it's armor into a dripping, melting mess and cooking it's flesh.
But it wasn't enough and the Keeper lashed out at Ben with alarming speed sending my husband tumbling back 20 yards. As Ben recovered and took aim with a gun I turned up the heat and continued to cook the flesh of the Keeper, the metal cooling and making it hard for him to move about. The metal shattered revealing the blue skin of the formorian we knew them to be, and it grabbed me by my face and leg, pulled me taut and smashed my back on it's knee. I felt nearly every bone in my back break and heard a stream of bullets strike it. As it fell I felt Ben's arms come around me as I channeled my ichor to heal my own wounds. But it wasn't over yet. Soldiers suddenly came pouring out of the building ordering us to stand down. They swarmed over us and Ben began to glow. I lit my hands on fire again and threw two balls at the men and then they released their guns on us. As Ben was rising the bullets tore through him and I knew true fear. Fear that I would lose my husband, the father of my unborn child. My fury raged and I burned through man after man to reach where he fell and I heard Rupper's voice singing in the background. I fell to my knees by him and all he asked was if I was safe as Wuyi worked her magic to save my beloved. I assured him I was and then we noticed 3 black helicopters headed our way. Wuyi gave me a quick report on Ben's condition and the helicopters released their payload. I did a quick calculation and realized they were going to hit the parking lot. I got Ben into the litter and told Wu and Rupper to get Ben and meet us at Rupper's bar, where apparently Kelly was waiting.
On the way there I finally got to talk to Ben. He said he left me there to protect me and our child. He wanted me out of harms way but instead he put me in greater danger. This city is not safe for scions and he had to know I would follow him. When he tried to pull his macho shit again I reminded him that I am the daughter of the great Huitzilopotchli and this is not how we wanted to go about having our family but it was how it was happening. Seeing no end to the argument I switched subjects and told him of my father's plan. In the end we were simply both glad the other was safe.
Johnathan helped Ben into a booth and we talked some more, relaxing in my husbands arms was a slice of heaven in all the hell of the day. After a few beers Ben went to ask if there was a room we could slip into. After getting a key and finding it...well, let's just say my husband is my perfect match in every way.
The Keeper however did not follow and as I burst onto the roof another Keeper lands and advances on me...with Ben right behind him. I felt a wave of relief at having finally found my husband soon followed by anger that he left without warning...but we had a Keeper to deal with. Ben slashed out it with his sword only to watch in horror as it bounce right off the Keeper. The Keeper turned his attentions to Ben and I channeled my anger as my hands blazed in fury and I pressed them into it's armor and forced the fire to flow over it, turning it's armor into a dripping, melting mess and cooking it's flesh.
But it wasn't enough and the Keeper lashed out at Ben with alarming speed sending my husband tumbling back 20 yards. As Ben recovered and took aim with a gun I turned up the heat and continued to cook the flesh of the Keeper, the metal cooling and making it hard for him to move about. The metal shattered revealing the blue skin of the formorian we knew them to be, and it grabbed me by my face and leg, pulled me taut and smashed my back on it's knee. I felt nearly every bone in my back break and heard a stream of bullets strike it. As it fell I felt Ben's arms come around me as I channeled my ichor to heal my own wounds. But it wasn't over yet. Soldiers suddenly came pouring out of the building ordering us to stand down. They swarmed over us and Ben began to glow. I lit my hands on fire again and threw two balls at the men and then they released their guns on us. As Ben was rising the bullets tore through him and I knew true fear. Fear that I would lose my husband, the father of my unborn child. My fury raged and I burned through man after man to reach where he fell and I heard Rupper's voice singing in the background. I fell to my knees by him and all he asked was if I was safe as Wuyi worked her magic to save my beloved. I assured him I was and then we noticed 3 black helicopters headed our way. Wuyi gave me a quick report on Ben's condition and the helicopters released their payload. I did a quick calculation and realized they were going to hit the parking lot. I got Ben into the litter and told Wu and Rupper to get Ben and meet us at Rupper's bar, where apparently Kelly was waiting.
On the way there I finally got to talk to Ben. He said he left me there to protect me and our child. He wanted me out of harms way but instead he put me in greater danger. This city is not safe for scions and he had to know I would follow him. When he tried to pull his macho shit again I reminded him that I am the daughter of the great Huitzilopotchli and this is not how we wanted to go about having our family but it was how it was happening. Seeing no end to the argument I switched subjects and told him of my father's plan. In the end we were simply both glad the other was safe.
Johnathan helped Ben into a booth and we talked some more, relaxing in my husbands arms was a slice of heaven in all the hell of the day. After a few beers Ben went to ask if there was a room we could slip into. After getting a key and finding it...well, let's just say my husband is my perfect match in every way.
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